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Why would you say something like that to me? :(
Edit: "Here is my art" is correct. While I don't believe that "Here are my arts" is correct. "Arts" doesn't mean multiple works of art, as far as I know.

You know some people have to work those jobs even if they did good in school. Just because they work at a McDonald's or some fast food place doesn't mean that everyone there is a shithead. For instance I made A's and B'a in HS but I work at a subway because MY FAMILY IS BROKE. Fuck you OP.

I grew up rich... Never having to work when I was younger I thought it must suck to have to work fast food... Now I wish I had.. I have the worst work ethic and am having a really hard time providing for myself now that my parents aren't paying for shit any more...

Kind of longish, but here's a tid bit about two friends of mine, and how I look at my path towards becoming successful. We'll leave out Entrepreneurship for sake of not talking for eternity since that is creativity based.

I have two friends like you too. They are brothers who were spoiled growing up. Even when it came to not wanting to go to school. Now one is working shift manager at McD's and the other is collecting food stamps and hasn't had a job in a couple years. It went from spoiling to out right kicked out and must live on their own. If it weren't for that income based housing, they wouldn't be able to sustain them selves. They don't seem to be trying to better their lives in any way on their own either, and it's sad to see. Opportunity is always there, you just have to make it show it's self. My best advice is to get into a job with an employer with tuition reimbursement, get certified, and climb the ladder. Some employers will pay for employees that are becoming management level to go to school for a Masters in Business Administration, like chain convenience stores like Wawa. To get there you need to push for it. Abuse the internet for free knowledge and courses. If you dont have a degree or further schooling from HS, trade skills like HVAC, Electrical, Plumbing, etc. can pay a comfortable salary around 20/hr and up if you start your own company down the road.

Jobs have always been about planning out at least the next 10 years of your life for me.
I always look at the endgame, and once i make progress in my position, I raise the bar for my endgame goal salary just a smidge more. For instance, at 17 years old working at wawa i wanted to be making 27k by 25, and 70k/yr by age 30. I am now 23 and the goal has risen to 100k by age 30, as i have reached my 27,000 mark two years early. Once im making 70k, my goal will be 120k with job + side business, without a college degree. (though once able i will put my self through school only for self improvement) Once i reach that goal, my raised expectations of self are to leave job and just run my business. I'll then build my business up and sell it. At which point i will retire or freelance. I have my current path planned out all the way down to retirement. You don't have to plan so far, but without a solid plan of attack you'll meander into what ever salary these people feel like giving you, which wont be much relatively speaking. Subway is bottom line- even at store manager level you are looking at 30k. Convenience Store Store Managers are a little better at around 50k, upwards to 70 depending on which company and how long you have worked for them. If you pick a job in a super market you are looking at 60-70k Assistant store manager and ~90k Store manager. From there you can climb to corporate for even fatter checks but thats ONLY with very strong work ethic, great delegation ability, and good friendly relations with your higher ups. Ok so maybe we will dabble into one form of entrepreneurship - Youtube. If you are interesting, have a topic or theme, and can build a following, Youtube can be a great place to build passive income, whether it be 100 bi-monthly or 200 a month.

At the very least if you read this i hope it helped in some way to realize what opportunities you may have.

I am working on the track of getting better. I recently went back to college and graduated in December. Now I'm looking for work and realizing I don't have 2 years of experience.

I also deal with seasonal depression which has been very bad this year.

I'm not looking to make much money 25-30k would be more than enough money to support me. The problem is I enjoy stocks and the stock market. But I don't have a business degree or 2 years experience and the jobs all require this. :(

Anyways thanks for your help. Hopefully I will figure something out. It's just hard, and my depression hurts me. I'm hopeful things warm up more so I can get outside more and start feeling better.

I've got a buddy like you. His parents paid for his car, pay his insurance and gas, and his tuition to DePaul. He thinks he has problems, that he's depressed. He sits on his fucking ass, smokes weed and plays videogames on his master race computer (that he didn't pay for). Any time he talks about his "problems" I just wanna give him a screwdriver lobotomy. I know I sound the exact same way to him, but he doesn't have parents who are divorcing as he's going to college, he's not working a minimum wage job for a sociopath, and he is not expecting his deadbeat scum parents to pay him back for money they borrowed to "keep the family afloat" (read: pay some of the debts they owe to their illegal gambling habits).
Sorry, my hard drive on my PC is dying and I'm fucking pissed at the world as it is.
EDIT: Which isn't to say I have any problems with you, the fact that you recognize this shortcoming and are willing to admit it makes you okay in my book.

Good on you for doing what's necessary. And if you wanna talk weed, I have no issues with it myself. I'll smoke with this buddy from time to time, and I enjoy it. But he doesn't realize it won't do anything for him. It doesn't solve problems, it evades them (psychologically of course). That and he spends basically all of his money on it. That's why I resent this of him. He thinks he's grown up and is doing a very adult thing in dealing with his problems but he's in fact doing exactly the opposite. I didn't have a choice in growing up, he does. I suppose I envy him for being able to put it off so long.

Exactly. And just because you do bad doesn't mean you'll wind up at McDonalds. I got C's mostly, scattered a few with A's and B's for the classes I couldn't help but do so well in. I did not try. I did not study. I did only enough HW to pass. Summer School once. Extra classes to catch up because of it. My family is also pretty broke. Way behind on bills since always.
But somehow i'm a 23 year old IT Manager now working for a school, with a pretty solid path to success ahead of me. Grades are nothing unless coupled with competence and work ethic. And some times if you have the competence and work ethic, you wont need the grades.

I had shit grades in high school, but made a lot of acquaintances and connections. Now I'm working the job I wanted from the start and Not paying a dime to go to college. It isn't about what your grades were, its what you did with your spare time.

Says McDonald's employees should be treated with fair wages, benefits and dignity.

Uses McDonald's employees every time they want to call someone stupid and lazy.

Have you all considered the possibility that the reason McDonald's gets away with treating their employees like shit is because for like the last 30 years we've been telling our children that only fuckups who deserve to be miserable end up at McDonald's?

I've been working at McDonald's for almost two years now and I don't understand all of this shit about McDonald's employees being stupid and lazy. I love my job and I love the people I work with. Sure there's some fuckups that work there but most of the employees are students in high school saving up for college/university. McDonald's even offers scholarships to its employees. Yeah, McDonald's will help you pay for your university.

McDonald's was my first job and I credit that place with teaching me the value of hard work and customer service. I really did like my time there, I think it helped me in the businesses I started (and sold) as well as the jobs I've had in between. Now almost 25 years later I'm considering buying a franchise, I almost have enough capital together to do it. Now I just have to decide if I want to spend my 40's busting my ass over a fryer :>

Same boat. Almost 2 years and I've received literally 7 pay raises. This is my first full-time job and I just bought my first house at 22. I don't give a single fuck about what some morons on the internet think about my job.

Fucking yes it is. The same shit gets voted to the front page on a daily basis. There is a clear and evident trajectory of opinion and content in a singular direction. Those who disagree are generally the outliers, and you'll find them at the bottom of the page.

I'm so sick of hearing this excuse. Reddit is an aggregate. To say that there is no overriding direction is to deny the site's entire function. If what you're saying would be the case, we'd be seeing random content on the front page on a daily basis. We don't. We see a homogenous set of opinions making the front page, generally favoring the majority opinion.

The current breakdown of upvotes to this post is 58% up and 42% down. That certainly isn't a leading majority in any sense, and doesn't imply to me that there is a clear cut opinion, as I was saying in my original post.

Sometimes the posts have a libertarian message, sometimes they have a liberal one. Sometimes they're atheistic and anti-religious, other times it's complete satire of people who take the whole ordeal too far or too seriously. Your original post literally says that Reddit has two different opinions about McDonald's employees. How would that be possible unless, the obvious answer, is that Reddit is composed of different individuals, with different thought processes, and different systems of beliefs, allowing both to come to fruition at different times? Either that or all reddit users are just stupid; I doubt it's that simple. You're trying to corner Reddit as an "aggregate opinion," which certainly can be done, but you're too stuck on pointing out the logical inconsistency to realize that it's easily explained by having different groups of users.

You're also assuming a sort of perfect elasticity among all the users; who is to say that the same 6,000 upvotes that this post received is the same as the last opinion-fueled meme? Let's also keep in mind that this website has had 2,849,839 users logged in as of TODAY. You want to talk stats? How about the sample size that we're working with compared to the amount just simply logged in?

Different things cause people to upvote or downvote. You could have two completely contradictory posts make it to the front page because different sets of people are voting on the posts. If everyone have to either upvote or downvote every post you might have a point, but they don't, so all making it to the front page indicates is that the content triggers a sufficient number of people to upvote it without triggering too many people to downvote.

I'm currently working at McDonald's. College senior with a 3.6 GPA. Working for gas and food money. Fuck people that think working at McDonald's automatically means you're either too stupid or can't get a "real job."

"First, it needs to be super circlejerky. What about combining two super circlejerky things? Now I just have to put it in tumblr meme format. Drop the quality of the jpeg to "abacus." Okay, now let's make sure it is at least 6 months outdated. What if I also made it a repost?"

This is clearly a satirical art piece and not just the shittiest post I've ever seen.

I failed 6th, 7th, 8th, and 9th grade to eventually get a GED in less than a week, and talk my way in to a private college. I'm not saying the meme is BS. But... Ya know, sometimes you can just talk and talk and talk.

Then again, I completely dropped out of college to become a rather successful salesman, who then quit sales to become a Roadie who now still does sales part time. So, take what I say with a grain of salt. I'm a born quitter.

You know, sometimes I hate how people are always referencing those who work at McDonalds (or other places like that) as people who aren't serious with life. Sometimes it's bigger than that. Besides, who are we to judge?

McDonalds is a good job. At least it's something to wake up and go do. A McDonalds employee brings more joy to people than many jobs. Dishing out casual potshots to thousands of hard workers makes us look stupid and disconnected from each other and from reality.

Don't kid yourselves, at least 66% of the douche bag chach and chachettes who are loaded with SWAG and YOLO but failing every class are going to grow up to be vastly, vastly more successful, happy, and well adjust than those who are diligent and intelligent.

I'm just saying, us studious dorks like to console ourselves by thinking the cool kids will end up working at McDonalds, but the truth is they will all give each other sweet ass glamorous jobs that require no work, come with boat loads of cash, and garner all the respect in the world while most of us will end up toiling away in obscurity on some barely relevant research, and a very very small minority will get rich off software

However much I don't like that stupid swag shit, I have to admit that the girl on the top frame could probably get paid somewhere just to stand around and be hot. Clubs pay attractive girls to go there and party all the time, or she could be a hostess (I think that's the name) at a restaurant and hand people off to waiters/waitresses and make $12+ easy.

True. People around here earn around $8 per hour at McDonalds. You'd be correct to point out that $12 is 50% more than $8. I guess I consider them both such ridiculously low wages so as to be comparable.